June 2014 Archives

Regular attendance in Church Schools and exemptions in serious cases of stays abroad

30/06/2014

Is-Segretarjat għall-Edukazzjoni Nisranija jfakkar li tfal irreġistrati fi skola tal-Knisja huma obbligati li jattendu regolarment l-iskola rreġistrati fiha.

Tista’ tingħata eżenzjoni f’każ ta’ ġenituri li flimkien ma’ uliedhom ser ikunu barra minn Malta għal xi raġuni serja, bħal xogħol, mard jew studju għal perijodu ta’ sena skolastika minn meta t-tfal suppost jibdew jattendu l-iskola. Sabiex dan iseħħ, il-ġenituri għandhom jiktbu lill-Bord tad-Dħul sabiex jinfurmawh b’din il-ħtieġa, iż-żmien tal-permanenza, u jibagħtu d-dokumentazzjoni relevanti li turi li huma se jkunu barra minn Malta għal xi raġuni serja…

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- Peter and Paul were “transformed” by the God’s mercy, Pope Francis said at his weekly Angelus address on Sunday.
  
  The Church in Rome, the Pope noted, has always celebrated a single feast for the two great Apostles of Rome. “Faith in Christ made them brothers, and martyrdom made them one,” he said.
Both Saint Peter and Saint Paul were personally chosen by Christ, “and they responded to the call by offering their whole lives.” Although Peter had denied Christ, and Paul had persecuted the Church, “the grace of Christ accomplished great things in them, it transformed them!” the Pope said…

30/06/2014

Matthew 8,18-22

When Jesus saw the crowd all about him he gave orders to leave for the other side. One of the scribes then came up and said to him, ‘Master, I will follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus said, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.’ Another man, one of the disciples, said to him, ‘Lord, let me go and bury my father first.’ But Jesus said, ‘Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead.’

The Saints of the day: First Martyrs of the Church in Rome

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29/06/2014

Matthew 16, 13-19

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said, ‘who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter spoke up and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed man! …

28/06/2014

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Luke 2, 41-51

Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it…

27/06/2014

Flimkien Lulju 2014

Maħruġ mill-Kulleġġ tal-Kappillani tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta

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27/06/2014

On the 26th of June 2014, a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the Instrumentum Laboris of the 3rd Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (5-19 October 2014) which will focus on “pastoral challenges to the family in the context of evangelisation”. The speakers were Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops; Cardinal Peter Erdo, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, and relator general of the 3rd Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops; Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris, France and delegate president; Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, Italy, and special secretary, and Professors Francesco Miano and Pina De Simone…

27/06/2014